"Editors have assembled a delicious collection of food and drink writing that originally appeared in Tin House magazine. Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast celebrates seven years of the dazzling writing and delicious recipes of Tin House magazine’s Readable Feast and Blithe Spirits departments. Literature and gastronomy converge in an idiosyncratic survey of everything from lotus fruit, elk, and absinthe to bread, eggs, and brandy ..."
"Tin House: Winter Reading is a beautifully designed periodical featuring the best writers of our time alongside a new generation of talent who are poised to become the most important voices of the future. Content includes short stories, profiles, author interviews, poetry, essays; and unique departments such as "Lost & Found," reviews of overlooked or underated books; and "Blithe Spirits" and "Readable Feast," which present tales and re ..."
Exit A by AnthonySwofford Hardcover, Published by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-641-85807-9, ISBN: 0-641-85807-8
"Poetry. Inspired by such thinkers as Deleuze, Badiou, and Agamben and such subjects as mathematical paradox and scientific method, Daniel Rounds's debut, SOME DISTANT LATERAL PRESENT, is poetry as intellectual, emotional, and phenomenological argument. These are poems that challenge the reader even as they challenge what poetry does, what it can do, even what it is willing to address as a form."
Death of an American Sniper The Extraordinary Life and Tragic End of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the Country's Most Lethal Soldier by AnthonySwofford Published 2013 by Byliner Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-61452-080-1, ISBN: 1-61452-080-1
"Anthony Swofford. least a day. It was obvious that the main draw was Kyle. Law
enforcement individuals wanted to watch him shoot and hear those stories about
killing insurgents over in Iraq. For Kyle, the training scenarios that Craft sold must
..."
Yeats and Tagore A Comparative Study of Cross-Cultural Poetry, Nationalist Politics, Hyphenated Margins and The Ascendancy of the Mind (Irish Research) by Sirshendu Majumdar, Lois Ann Abraham, AnthonySwofford Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2013 by Academica Press ISBN-13: 978-1-936320-64-6, ISBN: 1-936320-64-9
"This work is a comparative study of Rabindranath Tagore and William Butler Yeats. It explores their relationship and also seeks to clarify how and why these two poets shared certain ideas and ideals while there were also divergences. The author has also studied the role of James Henry Cousins, who in his early career was associated with the Irish Revival, but later on settled in India where he got involved with the cultural renaissance ..."
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails(1st Edition) A Memoir by AnthonySwofford Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2012 by Twelve Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-0673-6, ISBN: 1-4555-0673-7
"The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him. Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father i ..."
"... sane while following my father's directions for flushing the septic system, I
fantasized Jack Rebney of Winnebago Man fame. Rebney became known for the
profanity-laden outtakes from a 1980s Winnebago instructional video he'd
recorded."
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails(Large Print) A Memoir by AnthonySwofford Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2012 by Twelve Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-1351-2, ISBN: 1-4555-1351-2
"The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him. Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father i ..."
Jarhead by AnthonySwofford Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-4407-6603-9, ISBN: 1-4407-6603-7
Jarhead by AnthonySwofford Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-4193-8833-0, ISBN: 1-4193-8833-9
Jarhead(Reprint) A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by AnthonySwofford Library, 260 Pages, Published 2008 by Paw Prints 2008-05-29 ISBN-13: 978-1-4352-9387-8, ISBN: 1-4352-9387-8
Exit A(Reprint) A Novel by AnthonySwofford Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7039-7, ISBN: 0-7432-7039-8
"Anthony Swofford follows his international best-seller Jarhead with an unforgettable first novel -- a powerful story about a youth spent on a U.S. air base in Japan and the gritty neon streets just outside it, where the Japanese underworld lurks and a rebellious young girl finds herself in great danger........ Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx, an earnest, muscular high-school-football star, lives on an American air force base on the ou ..."
Jarhead A Solder's Story of Modern War by AnthonySwofford 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-84739-710-2, ISBN: 1-84739-710-7
"During World War II, marine snipers used a 1903A4 Springfield with a German
scope, the 12x Unertl, for the first time. The Marines also introduced night-vision
devices into the sniper's trade, and during one battle on Okinawa 30 percent of
the casualties were due to this capability. The Marines used many different
weapons for sniping during Vietnam, and more than a few of the guns hit out to
one thousand yards. Despite the distance ..."
Exit A by AnthonySwofford 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-84739-590-0, ISBN: 1-84739-590-2
"Exit A is the number one spot. I think they must work in the department store.
They look like cosmetics girls. Their makeup and posture are perfect. Their feet
must hurt, standing all day. On their way home they buy flowers at this stand." He
focused on a flower stand. "Who are you looking for?" "We're not spying. We're
waiting for incidents. And it will be useful in the case of an emergency, you know,
a tragedy, the sarin attack. ..."